Developing Metacognitive Skills in PBL Undergraduate Engineering

摘要

Metacognition is "knowledge of one's knowledge, processes, and cognitive and affective states; and the ability to consciously and deliberately monitor and regulate one's knowledge, processes, and cognitive and affective states". Metacognition is key to developing self-directed learning skills that are foundational to ABET's required "ability to be a life-long learner." Self-directed learning is also necessary for an effective work career, yet it is rarely integrated into engineering education.